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PRAYING.

TB. 5. b. in Godey's Ladies Book
In temple of myself pray my prayer,
And let it lie
Like planted seed to bear me precious fruit
Of due reply.
Not as | wish, perhaps, will be fulfilled
Ny urgent need.
And not i'll pathways, where fain would
''s"0' viii Gods hand lead
Yet somewhere out of darkness | shall turn
Into the light,
And after groping through the dim obscure
Rejoice i'll sight.
And looking back upon the troubled course,
Yhorny and long,
Where oft my weary soul with struggling
faint,
Deheld but wrong,
At last in calmness of great peace Won
Shall clearly see
Where blood-stained footsteps mark the
onward steps
Toward sweet To Be.
And all the wounds, the pain, the binding
As Jewels shine,
While gr0aningS i'll the night like echoes
OF strains divine!
For some day may feel Gods way is best
HoWe'er go;
And though His word be hard to understand
Iyet Shall know
And So although amid my strife pray,
lis not because
| hope to 'scape the dealings of His Grace
Or change His laws;
But that It's when all mortal joys seem far,
And earth is drear,
My soul in yearning scars beyond the flesh,
And feels Him near;
And having only human words to speak,
In limits bound,
utter cries for help while spirits depths
Find no true sound!
For Wisdom's Infinite and Present Love
BroOds oer my fate;
So lying low upon His shelterins arm
| learn to wait
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Prosperity of the South.
[EXcllange.1

The prosperity Of the South is with
out doubt confined almost exclusively
to the towns. Here and there the
state of things is different, in the truck
ing regions, in certain regions farmed
on the intensive system, and perhaps
in the grassgrowing, stockrearing re-
gions, for example. But as rule the
prosperity is confined to the towns and
mainly to the centres Or mineral de-
velopment. The farmers condition
does not improve, and yet he is the
foundation of all general prosperity.
If he remains unable to make both
ends meet the prosperity of the towns
will cease, as tree deprived ofits roots
sent deep into the ground for that
which makes it grow and flourish must
perish. What then, must be done !?
What must the farmer do to better his
condition? The answer that occurs
at once is, make more to sell or spend
less. But under existing circumstances
he cannot do either. He has not the
means to improve his farm and SO make
better crops, and he already lives as
economically as possible. Manifestly
something must be done for hun, and
it devolves on Congress to do it. The
tax must be taken off the necessary
clothing that he buys for himself and
family, and off the materials which 60
into the manufacture of the farm i'm
plements he has to use and for which
he now pays double value. The tariff
IS daily piling up in Washington
money by the thousands beyond the
needs of the government, while the
farmers Of the land, in spite of all they
can do, are growing poorer and poorer.
That tariff must be cut down, revised,
and at the earliest day possible 1t is
an unnecessary and = grievous burden
laid on every farmer in the land. The
agricultural interest cannot be expect
ed to flourish as it should until it is
relieved of this burden.
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To My Boy.

Sometime, my boy, you'll know
how your mother weeps, why the
weary eye-lids cease to rest all through
the weary night; why day after day
her youthful looks are waning and
wrinkles make deep furrows in her
brow. Sometime, when life's lesson
you are learning and when your blind
eyes are made to see the error of your
way, you'll catch glimpse of all her
worry. The world may not know
that you. my boy, are going astray,
but mother does. And 1t is this
knowledge that is changing the black
hairs to white. She CounSeled YOU,
my boy, as no other one has; she has
been more kind than any other will
be. Regard her teachings; change
your erring way, throw off the mantle
that will wrap you in degradation.
Stop your visits to the places of vice.
This alone is Why she sorrows; this is
why she weeps. Through the dim
mist she divines your future and the
pathway is rugged. Sometime when
you and | stand at her grave and drop
the hot, eve-b burning tears it will come
to you-everything that caused her
heart to dispair. There, it is there,
my boy, where the wrongs are seen
at the grave. Change now; she is
going fast and it will not be long ere
her trials will be over.
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plains of the North west where there
were no trees, since the lands have
been settled and forests planted, there
is more even supply Of rain.
With the present amount OF popula-
ton in this section none but the level
lands should be cultivated, and there
is enough of level land to keep what
labor we have profitably employed.
The more rolling lands, hill-sides and
hollows should be left in tlmbers and
where they have been already cleared
they should be allowed to grow up
again. The gullies on such places
should be filled with brush to catch all
that the rains may wash that way. The
CALLED spots should have little brush
or something to shade with, thrown
over them, and so encourage a quicker
growth on all surfaces not under Cul-
tivation. Farmers are in the habit of
squaring their fields for the looks of
the things, and in doing so they cut
across the hollows and the wet-weather
waterways, and the soil of these steep
places is washed away before even the
cost of clearing is repaid from the
crops raised on them. An ugly spot
is left in the field, and naked hard
surface exposed to the sun, and SO
much hot air is made to drive away a
friendly cloud. The briars and brushes
should grow on all such places, and
the plow be kept on the level spots re-
gardless of the shape OF the fields.
Shade invites moisture, and moist
earth surface tends to preserve a tenn
perate atmosphere, which brings a
more even distribution of rain, and
probably diminishes the violence of
storms.
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NO. 33.

in this stupendous canyon-for canyon
1t Is. The tourist of Yellow stone
Park, in Wayoming, may take in its
glories ad hbitum and feel that there
is nothing else in nature worth the
trouble of seeing but TO compass fully
the end intended by the expression,
see Naples and die" he must visit
and enjoy the scene in question
found, too, in North Carolina, and
within easy access of every section of
the State. 1t simply broadens ones
patriotism to contemplate the fact
Saturday the party stopped at Ashe-
vile and were guests at Battery Park
Hotel. Asheville needs no comment.
1t is the cosmopolitan town of the
South. Her citizens are vieing with
each other in the effort to make
strangers and visitors contented and
happy. They all feel peculiar sense
OF pride in this Hotel, on account of
the magnihccnce and the princely
style OF It's appointments and entertain
ment. 1t is simply grand in its struct-
ure, and overlooks a scene of rolling
mountains that the eye never tires
tcasting upon. The editors were hand
somely provided for, both at the Bat
terry Park and around the cily gener-
ally. An open air entertainment was
improvised for them at Cliveden Park
on Friday afternoon, at which num-
Der of the city gentlemen met them,
when, of course, good cheer reigned
supreme. Everything was conducted
with marked propriety and manage
ment for Jordan Stone of the CHisen
was there.
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Where We Excel.
New York Ledger.1

Many people, l have often noticed,
have foolish fashion of praising all
that is English and decrying all that
is American, English coats and Eng
lish manners, English pronunciation
and English umbrellas, English books
and English habits-all seem in their
eyes to be superior to our own. They
fancy it very fine to be taken for
Englishmen; and of late there is even
talk of the superior comfort of travel
ling in England.
Never was there greater mistake.
We have our faults here of course: but
there are no railways like ours, nor
any cars like ours, in all the world.
Every year improves the condition Of
the American traveller.
A woman who travels by rail in
America is perfectly safe and COM
fortable-as much SO, at least, as any
man is. She is in no danger of being
lnsulted, because she is under the pro-
lection of every decent man in the car.
If she asks question, she will doubt
less be answerd civilly. If she needs
assistance, it is offered. She can go
from Maine to California without any
annoyance whatever.
In England the apartments in the
coaches of a train contain but few
people, and are locked by a guard
who carries the key.
A young girl travelling alone may
be, and has been, locked in with
tt ief or a ruffian. All sorts of crimes,
including murder, have been commit
ted in those coaches; and there are
none in which any traveller can lie
down at night. He actually needs
rugs, cushions, and lantern. More
over, there are no baggage checks,
and "boxes' must be picked out from
great piles of the journey. There is
no wateron the train-not mouthful
for fainting person. At a station,
one may see a "guard' to bring some !;
that is all.
In England, no civility is offered
any stranger by another man. If an
American should ask an Englishman
in the same coach question, such as
any American would answer decently,
he would receive no reply, or, at best,
cold 'sInquire of the guard" The
frozen conventionality of England re-
quires that a gentleman shall know
another before he speaks to him. One
who does not consider himself a gen
tleman may reply, but he requires to
be paid for it. In fact, even a neces-
sary attention will not be offered by
the "guard'' unless you cross his palm
with silver. Imagine offering one OF
our conductors a ten cent piece for
being civil.
It's time that every American under
stood that we travel better in our big
country than Englishmen do in their
little one; that the employees of the
road are a finer sort of men and that
the travellers themselves add to their
own and their own neighbors' comfort
by an amount of consideration and
politeness, and of courtesy to all
women, never dreampt Of in England.
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VOL. VI.
ONE LIVED, THE OTHER DIED.

woman formerly our slave is now
our cook. About eighteen months ago
she bGcam NIcklY aud bad a cough aud
was G. nfined TO be:', and il was thought
that she had consumption. The treat
sncnt by physicians tailed TO give reliel.
In december, l654 node or knot the
s.z3 Of a GOOSE cgg formed just above the
pI5 of The stOa 4ch, which when lance
discharged matter for or moths.
One Of these Il 50 formed under her ii n al,
and three on her back, which discharged
matter tor 4 cJusiicTaB'e o time. For SIX
months uf this time she was c0EtI"eI
to the house, and most OF The Time III
bed. The stomach often refused food, by
rejecting What she had eaten. She used
a rt.at deaf of medicine, bat failed to ne
cured. ! bought one butt,e OF your Il.
J.. Il. una lc III Atlanta, Gd,J and gave II
To her and :Le cOIuuiet.ctd II Improve.
l then bought and CAV I three Ort;l
gnOTe, aud she continued To improve and
in two months time her cough liza
ceasGj. her constitution strengthened,
aippc;itu and digestion good, ali di>ch n
ges ceased, uDic5 or knot, appodfe
and she Went tD work APP Arently healthy
and la.tcned up greatly
TbI, woman had Il married sister OF
near same aGe WnO was ali cted III pre-
ci-eiy the same " y and al u the same
tini,. She had node Dr kE"t OH PIT Of
stomach, back, etc. she Gid not sanc
any - r. Il. and tEe node on her st"m-
s1ch. 4 . through to the ctvlt,. She con
IintIsi on the decline and wasted away,
amG Graiiy died.
lh, Sc were tlyo terrible cases of blood
poiSuu.-Ouc used Il. y. 4. and VS.
speedily cuI+d-the otler did use it and
di. 4. 1t is most as>utcdIy Il most WON
dpriul blood purifier. reler TO ner-
Chants Of this town. GuuIs truly,
". T.. EOBINSDE.
II i-habee AIa.. MAY |. 1886,
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To the Farmer We're ali Looking.
{ fStatesville Landmarks. I

The farmer is now the object of IN
tense interest. So much. depends upon
the result of the work lie is now doing
Good crops this year means revival of
business and better times; a failure
means increased depression and prob
able suffering. From every part of
the State come reports of brilliant
prospect. The farmers never worked
harder and the seasons were never
more propitiouS, The Lord of the
harvest watch over the husbandman
and send him sunshine and shower
unto the end.
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A pleasing episode of the conven
ton was the presence of a committee
of eminent Baptist dIvines who were
invited to seats IN the body, and who,
by invitation, addressed the editors in
a practical, winning style. They were
Drs. Ellis, of Baltimore, and Harris
and Tupper, ofRichmond, Burrows, of
Augusta, Gibson and Tichnor, of At
lanta, and Eaton, of Louisville, all
distinguished in their church, and all
Doctors of Divinity. They had selec-
ted Hendersonville as the most COM
Portable point at which to hold their
committee sessions relative to matters
touching the missionary work of their
church, which duty was imposed upon
them by the Southern Baptist Conven-
ton. Besides the sprinkle of wit,
mutual repartce one with another, and
the words of sober counsel delivered
to the editors, the social converse with
the gentlemen and the pleasures
arising from personal acquaintance
with them proved benediction to the
occasion.
Not the least among the entertain
ments provided for the editors was the
amateur concert given in the college
chapel on Tuesday night, by the young
people of the town. A better enter
tainment in music and acting could
not easily have been gotten up on such
short notice.
The convention adjourned on Thurs
day night. Accepting the profered
excursion to Hot Springs, the party
left Hendersonville at an early hour
on Friday morning, and a most de-
lightful ride OF few hours placed us
at the Mountain Park Hotel, where
hot baths and a hot breakfast awaited
us. Nature has done everything for
the place and art has added its finish
ing and finished touches. From Ashe,
Vile down the French Broad, which
unrolls to the eye like a bul-colored
ribbon and is invisible at no point in
the distance of II miles, is the trip oi
all the mountain country. The grand
eur of the scene! Ii Is indescribabie.
Towering cliffs and rugged mountain;
shut you in, and for the time you enjoy
a te.-l-tete, as it were, with Nature:
startling wonders which seem concen.
tired, as one grand object lesson, with
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IN THE MOUNTAINS.
PICTURESQUE WESTERN
NORTH CAROLINA.
Meeting of the Press Association at
Hendersonville.
Rockingham Rocket

In the afternoon on Tuesday the
first wniff OF cool air was ielt a. we
approached that grand and awful as
cent of the Blue Ridge at Old Fort.
TO enjoy at the best this ascent OF the
mountains from Old Fort to Savanna
noa Gap, one should have the compa-
ny of friends whose first experience
with mountain views makes them
happy and imparts to others the en-
thusiasm they feel. The ruins of old
Henry Station-three miles from the
foot stand as silent sentinels on the
beach to mark the spot Of departure
after the ship of progress has passed
outward and beyond the stretch of the
horizon. At our second trip to this
mountain region Henry Station was
the terminus of the Western North
Carolina Railroad. Now it is lost as
a point OF interest, without "local
habitation and name" When
this place is reached you have already
passed through the first Of seven tun-
nels, and now the crisp air of the
mountains proper is felt more and
more perceptibly as you round the
curve that brings you in view of Round
Knob and its picturesque hotel. A
bevy of summer visitors here occupy
the porches and wave their handker-
chiefs at the steadily climbing train.
This point passed, the scene suddenly
enlarges, and in a sense, the plot
thiCkens-that is, the plot that culml-
mates in imag;nation's riot. You look
backward and see the track just trav-
eled over at divers points, and now
from dizzy height, you view the
Round Knob Hotel which looks very
like fairy castle in the foggy distance
while the white clad little girls on. its
porches, waving last goodbye, re-
mind you OF the tiny denizens of such
fabled home. At this era of your as
cent enthusiasm asserts entirely the
sway, aud be careful, else you will
spring from the car in a fit of admira
ton. Those annoying tunnels now
and then must needs change the feel
ings from glow to gloom, but the or
deal is soon passed, and ever varying
beauties burst again ON the vision.
We found the people of Henderson,
vile ready for our arrival, and to re-
ceive us with open arms of hospitality.
This town is 2,252 feet above the sea,
and of course the climate is all that
is desirable. 1t has beer characterized
by a visitor from another State as
the .pcarl of mountain towns" and
we have no disposition to dispute it
certainly not after 50 recent visit
and under such delightful circumst2n-
ces.
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THE TROTTING HORSE.
EMPHATICALLY AN AMERICAN
PRODUCTION.

Scrub Matches and Speedy Heats on the
-ReminiscenCe Of One OF the
Speediest Mics Made by Maud s.,
the Queen.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-09-24
SUCCESSION SALE.
State of Louisiana, Parish of
Madison. Eighth judicial
District Court.
Succession of

Succession Of No 81.
Mrs. Susan A. Biggs decd. Probate.
DY Virtue of Commission to sell.
ID to me directed, from the Honor
able Eighth judicial District Court Tor
the Parish Of Madison AZORES aid, III he
above named succession Of date Jan.
}lst 1887, viii proceed to sell at public
auction aJ the front door OF the Court
Parish on Saturday, the
9TH day Of November. \. D. 1887.
within the hours prescribed bg ,aw for
judicial sales, the following described
property Of said succession tO-wit
The Ie5peria plantation situate in
the Parish OF Madison, State OF 5Cr.si-
ana, being that portion Of said plarta-
ton which has not Caved in the river,
COMPRISING portions OfiOts or fractional
sections Nos. four az, five TO-, six 90,
seven (7), eight ~ and t9), all in Town
ship No. 10 North Range Mum Der Fifteen
East, and estimated by the inventory Of
said succession to now contain about
Three Hundred acres of land together
with the buildings and improvement is
thereon appraised at Eight Hundred
dollars to pay the debts of said success
sion and order of sale.
Terms Of Sale-Cash not less than
two thirds or appraisement.
WM. KELLY, Administrator
of the succession Of Mrs. Susan A.
Biggs, deceased,
rallulah, La. Sept. 81, 1887.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-09-24
JEFFERSON COLLEGE.
HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND YOUNG MEN.
N the chill country" near Natchez,
Mississippi.

Large and increasing patronage of
boarding pupils Health and morals
first consideration. Strictly non-sec-
tartan. Literally endowed. Rates very
low. Chartered in 1902. Session of
1873 opens Sth Of September. Fall
corps OF professional teachers. En-
glish Classical and Commercial Courses.
Location renowned for health and.beau-
tiful surroundings. Buildings large
commodious with recitation rooms. dor
mitories, library, &c, all conveniently
arranged and III good repair. Study
hall and recitation rooms recently fur
nished with the latest and most i'm
proved school furniture and supplied
with maps. charts. globes. aud other
appara tus necessary to insure effective
teaching. Free telephone to Natchez.
Board, tuition, furnished room, wash
ing, and lights, $3.50 per session of ten
months. For Catalogues giving full
particulars, address the Principal.
J. S. RAYMOND.
en-. Washington, Miss.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-09-24
Delta EZElY

Mr.. Chas. Boccel,et,a has ar
ranged with Messrs. Long {; Floyd
to run the Delta Ferry under their
charter.
The steamer Alice, Chas. Boo
celIettc, Master, viii leave NicEs-
burg al 5 and 10 4. m, 1870 and .
p. N.
Leave Delta at 9 and 1870 am,
, and s p. n.
Landing at foot of China street,
Vichsburg.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-09-24
FOR SALE.
Notes to Taxpayers.

ALL Persons owning propertv in the
n Parish Of Madison are hereby no.
titled that the tax rolls for the year
1881, h:ye been fled IN the
Office Of the Clerk, and
Of the Sheriff of said Parish and that
the taxes for said year are now due
and all parties owing taxes are hereby
notified 20 come forward and pay same
in order TO avoid the notice advertise
ment and sale required by law.
II. 3. HOLMES.
Sheriff and EX-Offcio Tax Collector,
Parish of Madison. -6t.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-09-24
c1fco Of the Vic.;shnrg, Shreveport &
Pacific Rail load Company.
AnrnSt 25th. 1877

August 18th, 1887.
Notice is hereby given that meet
Ing Of the Shareholders of this Com
pany for thc purpose Of receiving he
report Of the last year operations ami
business, and Of examining into the
cont tiOu f the affairs Of the Com
oauv, vii. hr heil 1t the Office Of The
Com uGny. IN Monroe, L., on the
25tl Day Of September, 1887,
al y o'clock noon. And that on the
"a Of October, INs7. at the hour Of -
o clock, and at the same place meet
IN" of the Stockholders of the Com
panv will be held for the election Of q
Board Of Directors.
The books for the transfer OF shares
will De closed Oh september l. I'll, and
rG-oponcd October 4tn, 1887.
By order D, GIRAFFE, Secretary.